Lava flow during the eruption of the Kīlauea volcano in 2018. (Image: U.S. Geological Survey)
The lava bubbled after the record rain: study results suggest...
This is what the Antarctic forest could have looked like 90 million years ago. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute)
Today Antarctica is the most hostile and...
Artist's impression of Dineobellator. (Photo: Sergey Krasovskiy)
It had feathers, an iron grip and a flexible tail for balance in chases: fossil hunters discovered a...
The North Atlantic circulation current drives the warm North Atlantic current and forms cold deep water (NADW) (Image: Yair Rosenthal / Rutgers University New...
Living environment in the Geiseltal 47 million years ago: Propalaeotherium (left) and Tapir Lophiodon (center) (image: Marton Szabo)
The ancestors of today's horses have changed...
This is how the ancestor of Bilateria might have looked. (Image: Sohail Wasif / University of California Riverside)
What did the ancestor of all bilateria...
In this Mediterranean climate zone in the mountains of central Chile, vegetation and precipitation lead to comparatively heavily weathered soil profiles. (Image: Todd Ehlers)
They...
Tundra in Alaska. (Photo: Dieter Meyerl / iSTock)
The frozen soil of the arctic permafrost areas is surprisingly permeable. Because groundwater also collects under these...
Artist's impression of Elpistostege. (Image: Katrina Kenny)
A creature from the era of land conquest: paleontologists present a "missing link" in the evolution of prehistoric...
Skull of the fossil bird Asteriornis maastrichtensis (Image: Daniel J. Field / University of Cambridge)
When did the first representatives of modern birds emerge? So...
Ice off the Antarctic coast. (Image:
Maria Stenzel)
Researchers say that what happens at the cold "ends" of the world can have a significant impact in...